Walker Hamill
Interim Senior Demand Planner
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Interim Senior Demand Planner
Industry: FMCG
Employment Type: Contract
Location: London
Salary Guide: £250 - £300 per Day Depending on Experience - 4 Month Contract
REF: MA54109
Our client is seeking an Interim Senior Demand Planner to focus on creating a robust short-term forecast for key customers, giving the supply chain team the best chance to balance stock availability and waste and supporting great service with customers.
About
The successful individual will dive into the detail of customers’ orders and forecasts by SKU at the daily level, partnering with Customer Service, Commercial and Demand Planning stakeholders to execute commercial plans and ensure the operational forecast captures the effects of phasing, buy-ins and other exceptions.
This role sits at the heart of the wider forecasting function, partnering with stakeholders to maintain a trustworthy forecast to enable business decisions and contributing to weekly performance reviews to understand drivers of forecast accuracy.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities for this Interim Senior Demand Planner role will include, but are not limited to:
- Maintaining a detailed SKU-level forecast based on commercial plans in the operational window (up to 12 weeks) to drive accuracy and supply chain decisions, including for promotions and new product launches.
- Coordinate between the demand planners in the team to ensure they are all focusing in the right areas.
- To act as the main point of contact for the team’s stakeholders.
- Detailed analysis of customer orders versus forecast and ordering patterns to influence the daily-level forecast.
- Partnering with Commercial teams to understand customer performance and implications on the forecast, reviewing on a weekly basis to adapt the short-term forecast as needed.
- Partnering with Customer Service teams to bring in customer insight on the forecast.
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Feeding into the wider forecasting process, taking part in monthly forecast reviews with the Demand Planning and Commercial teams to dive into the detail of the forecast.
Skills
The skills and experience required for this Interim Senior Demand Planner role include, but are not limited to:
- Previous demand planning/forecasting experience within FMCG/Supply Chain.
- Previous team management is essential.
- Effective communication skills; ability to manage relationships across a variety of stakeholders.
- Analytical; comfortable manipulating and analysing data in systems and Excel.
- Calm and logical approach.
- Experience with demand planning systems.
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Please note that due to the expected volume of applications, we will only be able to respond to those candidates whose experience matches the requirements of our client. We are sorry, but if you have not heard from us within the next ten days, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Walker Hamill has been a specialist finance and strategy recruiter for approaching 40 years. We have an extensive client group, including major multinational listed organisations, private equity backed businesses and privately owned companies. We recruit across all sectors and have particularly strong client relationships in technology, media, retail, pharma/biotech, property/real estate, leisure and business services. Headquartered in London, we have additional offices in continental Europe.
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